Jury begins deliberations in sex-abuse trial

10:49 PM,
Dec. 11, 2013

Tracy Looney

Written by

The defense rested Wednesday without presenting any witnesses in the trial of a Lascassas man accused of raping a preschool girl and abusing her two older brothers.

Rutherford County Assistant District Attorney Laural Hemenway presented her last witness in the morning and rested her case.

Shortly after lunch, Bill Bullock, who is representing Tracy Looney, 48, of Valley View Road on four counts of rape of a child, two counts of aggravated sexual battery and two counts of child abuse, rested his case without calling a single witness. ...